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Ghalib (1797-1869) was the most intellectual poet and a versatile literary genius of his time. He was a great artist and possessed a vivid and dynamic personality. He had excelled in almost all branches of Persian poetry and prose. But his main field is Ghazals in which his colourful personality is fully projected. His Ghazals are characterised by the depth of thought and feeling, maturity of wisdom, original interpretation of reality awareness to problems of life, analogical expressions, humanism, liberalism etc. His Ghazals are the best expression of his poetic genius.

Now for the first time an exhaustive selection of PersianGhazals of Ghalib has been translated into English by Dr. Yusuf Husain. By his attempt to introduce the great genius of his age to the European world, Dr. Yusuf Husain has rendered a great service to the cause of Indo-Persian culture and literature. The book would create interest in scholars and writers to initiate this great poet of India, as has been done in cases of Khayyam, Sadi, Hafiz, Jami and others.